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US Plant Patent PP12834

Burpeacheight

Peach tree named ‘Burpeacheight’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 12, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12834, the photograph of Burpeacheight printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12834, reproduced as printed. The patent carries the notice Copyright 1995, Third Edition) provided by The Royal Horticultural Society of Great, which under 37 CFR 1.71(e) is given alongside permission to reproduce the document.

The record

Patent number
PP12834
Filed
December 12, 2000
Granted
August 6, 2002
Expires
December 12, 2020
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinctive variety of peach tree denominated varietally as ‘BURPEACHEIGHT’ and which is characterized as to novelty by a date of maturity for commercial harvesting and shipment of, approximately August 30 to September 7, under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated our new variety of peach tree what we claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized as to novelty by producing an attractively colored freestone peach, which is sufficiently matured for harvesting and shipment approximately August 30 to September 7 under the prevailing ecological conditions experienced in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12834 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.